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BY SCOTT SCHNEIDER
Like any other conservative running in 2010, Christine O’Donnell hopes that a November 2 victory signals the end of a damaging era in American Politics. For Christine; however, there is an added weight to the occasion. . .she would be the winner of an open race that could throw the Democrat’s plans for a lame-duck counteroffensive into a tailspin.

Christine is running for Vice President Joe Biden’s open Senate seat in Delaware. Because Biden has vacated his term, her reign as Republican Senator would begin immediately on November 3 and the Senate make-up now at 59 Democrats, generally filibuster proof, would be reduced to 58, or only marginally filibuster-proof and the Democrat’s plans for a late-session Cap-and-Trade, Card-Check, tax-hiking bonanza would be in shambles.

Contrasting that with Christine’s Republican opponent, a RINO in Mike Castle, a career congressman who has generally voted with Democrats on just about every single major spending issue including being one of the infamous 8 who voted for the Waxman-Markey Cap-And-Trade bill, the ability for Christine to win the Sept 14, 2010 primary election makes her race particularly vital to the conservative cause this fall. Read the rest of this entry »